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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>EZEKIEL</span>
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CHAPTER 4
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Ezekiel creates a type and shadow of the siege and famine that shall befall Jerusalem.
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Thou</span> also, son of man, take thee <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/4/1a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE a clay tablet.">a</a> tile, and lay it before thee, and <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/4/1b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE engrave, or cut in it a representation of the city.">pourtray</a> upon it the city, <i>even</i> Jerusalem:
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And <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/4/2a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE draw upon it the plan of the attack against the city.">lay</a> siege against it, and <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/4/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 25: 1.">build</a> a fort against it, and <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/4/2c" mark="c" type="D" title="OR build up a mound, or bank.">cast</a> a <sup>d</sup><a href="ezek/4/2d" mark="d" type="A" title="Jer. 6: 6.">mount</a> against it; set the camp also against it, and set <sup>e</sup><a href="ezek/4/2e" mark="e" type="A" title="Ezek. 21: 22."><i>battering</i></a> rams against it round about.
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Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it <i>for</i> a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it.  This <i>shall be</i> a <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/4/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 25: 9.">sign</a> to the house of Israel.
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Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: <i>according </i>to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
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For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
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And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.
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Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm <i>shall be</i> uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
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And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
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&#182; Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/4/9a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR spelt (a type of wheat).">fitches</a>, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, <i>according</i> to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
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And thy <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/4/10a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB food.">meat</a> which thou shalt eat <i>shall be </i>by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
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Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
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And thou shalt eat it <i>as</i> barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/4/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hosea 9: 3 (1-3).">defiled</a> bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
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Then said I, Ah Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>!  behold, my soul hath not been <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/4/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Pollution.">polluted</a>: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/4/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="Lev. 7: 24.">dieth</a> of itself, or is <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/4/14c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ex. 22: 31.">torn</a> in pieces; neither came there <sup>d</sup><a href="ezek/4/14d" mark="d" type="A" title="Lev. 7: 18; Lev. 19: 7.">abominable</a> flesh into my mouth.
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Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow’s dung for man’s dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
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Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/4/16a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE fearfulness, anxiety.">astonishment</a>:
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That they may want bread and water, and be <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/4/17a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB appalled.">astonied</a> one with another, and <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/4/17b" mark="b" type="A" title="Hel. 12: 3.">consume</a> away for their iniquity.
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